Perpetual Adaptation of Software to Hardware: An Extensible Architecture for Providing Code Optimization as a Central System Service

1999/03/22 by Thomas Kistler, Michael Franz, Kistler, Thomas +1
Computer Science · #D.3.4 #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Operating Systems (cs.OS) #Programming Languages (cs.PL) #cs.OS #cs.PL

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cs/9903014

22 pages

arxiv created 1999/03/22 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

We present an open architecture for just-in-time code generation and dynamic code optimization that is flexible, customizable, and extensible. While previous research has primarily investigated functional aspects of such a system, architectural aspects have so far remained unexplored. In this paper, we argue that these properties are important to generate optimal code for a variety of hardware architectures and different processor generations within processor families. These properties are also important to make system-level code generation useful in practice.

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